Ask HN: Learning resources for building AI agents?

I’ve recently gone through several materials, including Antonio Gulli’s AI Agentic Design Patterns, Sam Bhagwat’s Principles of Building AI Agents and Patterns for Building AI Agents, as well as the courses from LangGraph Academy and some content on DataCamp.

This space is evolving very quickly, so I’m curious how others here are approaching learning. What resources, courses, papers, or hands-on approaches have you found most useful while building AI agents?

7 points | by 7e10 1 day ago

9 comments

  • stochtinkerer 14 minutes ago
    Just start building my man. Would highly advise keeping it minimal, just use OpenAI Agents SDK. Most of these frameworks are overengineered af
  • tiredgirl4 1 day ago
    Get your hands dirty and start vibe coding your own AI agent using free open-weight models. Thats my recommendation. You probably already know more than you think. :)
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    • 7e10 1 day ago
      yes, thanks! I have been building along the way, coded an Agent that works with google analytics 4 and some more, full stack Mern+langgraph. . however, interesting to know what others are learning.. More in the direction of building autonomous agents because using langgraph does not really seem truly autonomous or maybe i’m doing something wrong.
  • jsilence 1 day ago
    Calibra might help to put some benchmark numbers on your prototypes: https://calibra.swival.dev/
  • Raquel_Jalves 20 hours ago
    That's it, start now and learn how to improve on the way:)
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    • 7e10 19 hours ago
      sure, thanks!
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